Gilles-Eric Seralini
Anti-GMO leaders withdraw from ‘Great Biotech Debate’ — Forum will go on
Two leaders of the anti-biotech movement have dropped out the Great Biotech Debate, for dubious reasons, but the GLP and ...
Conversion of an anti-GMO activist
The following is an edited excerpt. It's my 200th blog post and I do have much to celebrate. The record of how ...
Kenya: Biotech supporters lobby to overturn ban
The following is an edited excerpt. The supporters of biotechnology have launched a new offensive to overturn last November’s Cabinet ...
Navigating the agricultural biotech minefield: When an MIT study is not an MIT study
Thanks to a credulous Reuters report, a shoddy piece of pseudoscience is making the rounds as “an MIT study” linking ...
An NYU panel debate on GMO labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Last Thursday, the NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life, in conjunction with GMO ...
GMO scientist Séralini backs GMO awareness and labeling
Last year the French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini published a study linking GMO foods and tumors in rats. The study has since ...
GM crops defended
The following is an edited excerpt. Professor Wayne Parrott says those who oppose crop-biotechnology based on anti-science views should spend ...
Anti-GM ad uses Seralini study to try to swing WA vote
The following is an edited excerpt. The TV advertisement linking genetically modified crops to tumours in rats is encouraging people ...
India: Discredited Seralini paper wreaks havoc on GM debate
The following is an excerpt. India has become a flashpoint for the use of modern biotechnology in agriculture in the ...
The GMO industry: Corporate hijacking of food and agriculture
Science has become a political football. Anyone who questions the safety of GMOs is “clueless” and indulges in “scare mongering” ...
Australian debate over Seralini paper continues
The Australian anti-GMO NGO Safe Food Foundation has reaffirmed its support for the much-derided Seralini paper in the wake of ...
UK, Kenya, China: doing the GMO two-step
Gotta love the candor of UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, who reportedly called consumer opposition to genetically modified (GM) food ...
Seralini paper to blame for Kenya’s GMO ban
Seralini Paper Influences Kenya Ban of GMO ImportsForbesBags containing 'MON 810', a variety of genetically modified maize (corn) developed by ...
Can the damage from agenda-driven junk science be undone?
But can the damage from the Seralini corn study be undone? It is far more probable that this “cancer link” ...
Kenya issues blanket GMO ban
Kenya, one of the first African countries to legalize GM technology, used to be recognized as a leader in that ...
EU rejects Seralini report linking GM maize to cancer
The EU's food safety agency definitively rejected Wednesday a bombshell French report linking genetically modified corn to cancer, saying it ...
Scientists call out French researchers to release GMO test data
More than 700 scientists and academicians have signed petitions calling on French researcher Gilles-Eric Seralini to release research data behind ...
Scientists challenge organic backer Benbrook claims that GM crops increase pesticide spraying
The ongoing hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetic modified crops ...
Australian perspective on Seralini affair
By now, you may have heard that eating genetically modified (GM) corn causes cancer. That alarming news is based on ...
EU rejects French scientist report linking GM corn to cancer
The European Food Safety Authority said Thursday it cannot accept an "inadequate" report by a French scientist on a link ...
Séralini scandal week 3
The European Food Safety Authority has weighed in with its assessment of the maize studyby Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research ...
Sloppy anti-GMO journalism goes viral
Keith Floor, who thoroughly deconstructed the uncritical reporting that accompanied the release of the now widely discredited Seralini GM maize ...
GM foods present serious challenges
For those that want to complain about restricting technologies, the truth is that we do it all the time. According ...
Does the Seralini corn study fiasco mark a turning point in the debate over GM food?
Are anti-biotech campaigners the leftwing version of climate change deniers? The science media are finally confronting the distortions perpetrated by ...
Turning point from the botched French maize study: GM opponents look like climate deniers
The highly controversial study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini, who as we noted in last week’s update has a long ...
Health and safety of GM foods
The battle lines are firming in the debate between the mainstream science community and anti-GM activists about the safety and ...
